Christopher Z. Hobson
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Description:
Against the backdrop of Britain’s underground 18th and early-19th
century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals,
Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy
and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him
gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality.
In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British
radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality
and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of
the cooperative commonwealth.
Contents:
Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality and the Republican Tradition * Blake
and the Poetics of Masculinity * Homosexuality, Resistance, and Apocalypse:
The Four Zoas * History, Homosexuality, and Milton’s Legacy
* The Cruelties of Moral Law: Homosexuality and the Revision of
Milton * Blake’s Synthesis: Jerusalem *Conclusion
Author Biographies:
Christopher Z. Hobson is Associate Professor of English Language Studies
at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury.
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